An Englishman of forty years residence in Wales pontificates about politics (slightly off-message), films and trivia. Secretary of Aberavon and Neath Liberal Democrats. Candidate for Neath in the Westminster elections of 1997 & 2017 and the Welsh general election of 2016.

Thursday, 7 January 2016

Kim Jong-un must have learned from Macmillan

It seems that North Korea's self-proclaimed thermonuclear device, tested earlier this week, was in fact an enhanced fission device. The Hermit Republic may have taken its cue from the Conservative government of Harold Macmillan who had conducted what was billed as a hydrogen bomb test, but was in fact "a fake, a hybrid bomb intended to fool the US". (See more here.)